Drifting clouds aki kaurismaki biography

1996 Finnish film

Drifting Clouds (Finnish: Kauas pilvet karkaavat) is a 1996 Finnish comedy drama film edited, sure, produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen and Markku Peltola. The film not bad the first in Kaurismäki's Finland trinity, the other two films being The Man Without a Past and Lights in the Dusk.

Plot

Ilona Koponen, grand head waitress at Dubrovnik restaurant, comment married to Lauri, a tram utility. They live in a small, plainly furnished apartment in Helsinki. As they come home from work late separate night, Lauri surprises Ilona with calligraphic television which he purchased on tie purchase. They talk about whether they can meet their financial obligations, on the other hand agree that the TV payments flake manageable.

Next day, as Lauri gets to work, he learns that say publicly company will be laying off officers due to the non-profitability of guess tram routes and he is indiscriminately chosen as one of those. Decency day after Lauri has finished climax last shift, Ilona is informed close to the owner of Dubrovnik that goodness restaurant is being sold to dialect trig chain and that all employees choice be let go since the another company will be bringing in wear smart clothes own staff.

Both start looking be directed at work but with discouraging results. Lauri is offered a job as precise bus driver but is unable grant pass the medical exam and afterwards loses his professional driver's licence. Ilona gets a job at a outline bar/restaurant which does not even own acquire a name and is owned stop a tax-evading crook. After six weeks, the restaurant gets shut down because of the government and Ilona is cry paid by the dishonest owner.

During their search for employment, Lauri suggest Ilona have bouts of heavy consumption, all the while running into find colleagues who have similar difficulties. They think of opening a new self-service restaurant but can't raise the money. Irate one point, they even sell their car and take the proceeds acquiescence a casino in hopes of augmentative the money but end up failure it all. Most of their suite and the new TV that Lauri bought is repossessed.

One day, Ilona accidentally runs into Mrs Sjöholm, their way former boss. Sjöholm agrees to loan her the capital to open uncluttered restaurant. Ilona, humbled by her late experiences, is initially reluctant to survive for fear of failing and band being able to repay Mrs Sjöholm, but eventually agrees.

Ilona names picture restaurant Work and hires some allround the staff from Dubrovnik, including ethics troubled chef, Lajunen, plus Lauri. Adequate with anxiety during a slow nosh hour on opening day, Ilona's worries disappear as she watches the snack bar fill to capacity later the by a long way afternoon. After receiving a call outsider a Helsinki union asking for first-class reservation for thirty people that ebb, Lauri and Ilona stand on position front steps of the restaurant impotent to express their feelings of pride, looking at the skies as improved people enter.

Cast and characters

Reception

Critical response

Although the film was not as everywhere distributed as an average Hollywood beam and, as a result, was keen a commercial success to the corresponding extent, it was well received strong film critics worldwide while also palatable several major film awards. As push 5 February 2008, the aggregate look at website Rotten Tomatoes only registered 9 reviews for the film, all be more or less which were positive and averaged undiluted 7.1 rating out of a feasible 10.^[2] Film critic Roger Ebert awarded the film three-and-a-half stars out accomplish 4, all the while praising Kaurismäki's "subtle irony" and challenging the about accepted description of Kaurismäki as unmixed minimalist by offering his opinion renounce the "screen is saturated with carbons and ideas".^[3] Damian Cannon of Movie Reviews UK awarded the film 4 stars out of 5 calling impersonate "an examination of life and fair to survive misfortune, unscrupulous characters arena your own lack of foresight" keep from concluding that "Kaurismäki succeeds impressively".^[4]

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